Pro-Active Anti-Aging Tips

Friday, January 29, 2016

The mind has
a wonderful way of aging. It mellows, matures and through experience develops a
sense of wisdom. It learns to laugh, appreciate and anticipate.The soul never ages. It just grows. It remains
both playful and curious while observing and acknowledging the lessons of life.
But the body is something different. Left to its own devise it weakens and
deteriorates. We need to direct the body towards health and fitness so that we can
experience quality of life. The number one predictor of a loss of independence
is bone weakness. The bones are the skeletal frame of your body. But when we
think about the bones we don’t think about the importance of the joints. The joints
are what allow us to move. Joints are the connecting points between two bones.
Some are small, some are large. Some move a lot and some move very little.

In our
western culture we are beginning to lose some of the functioning of our larger
joints such as the shoulders and the hips. As a result the smaller joints such
as the elbows, wrists and ankles are taking on a larger load. So to maintain
and improve our physical functioning we need to accentuate the movement of these
larger joints. That is exactly what we do in Doctor Lynn’s Anti-Aging Yoga Dance.
Today let’s work on building strength, flexibility and balance into the joints
and the bones of our body

Just like
the body the mind is the connecting point between actions and words. Some
thoughts are small and some are large. Some thoughts move a lot and some move
very little. As we move through life, body, mind and soul it is important to remember
that quality of life means the ability to approach life with a sense of balance,
flexibility, strength and peace.

Friday, January 22, 2016

Projects mounting, responsibilities overwhelming and little
time to relax are all precursors to a stress attack and stress is one of the major
accelerators of aging. Taking on too much can cause physical and mental
turmoil. We all do it. Sometimes at different levels, but the result is the same.
For some of us the stress threshold is higher. But whatever your threshold overwhelming
pressure will take its toll on your health. The best thing to do is learn to
say, “No.” It’s simple. Just say it.

Last week with looming deadlines and new projects evolving I
found myself confronted with the need to say, no, to my friends and my family,
as well as extra work. It is a word I learned to use a few years ago when
someone taught me the value of saying, no. I was constantly being thrust into stressful
situations with people, who were shall we say, people with unhealthy attitudes
about boundaries and social interactions. What my mentor taught me was that I
did not have to do anything I didn’t want to do. I had the right to say, “no.” So
now, no, easily rolls off my lips without guilt and I move onto the things that
must get done, that I want to do and the things that make me want to say, “yes.”

Both no and yes for me are two very wonderful proactive
anti-aging words!

Friday, January 15, 2016

Your chance of going gray increases
10-20% every decade after 30 years. YIKES! That means under this disguise of
blond I’m 30-60% grey! But why? Initially, hair is white. It gets its natural
color from a type of pigment called melanin. The formation of melanin begins
before birth. The natural color of our hair depends upon the distribution, type
and amount of melanin in the middle layer of the hair shaft or cortex.

Ok so I start out with white hair
and I will end up with white hair. Who put that plan into action? With the
white and grey beginning to sprout I’m off to the hairdresser for a much needed
toucher up. I wish I could go grey, but vanity will not allow me to give way to
my fading melanin. Although I have seen some beautiful grey and white hair it
does somehow date you. My girlfriends agree. We’re just not ready to be old,
and grey hair somehow symbolizes being old.

It’s all about the hair. We spend hundreds
of dollars to keep our locks looking stylish and sleek. Three hours in the hairdresser’s
chair may be torture but it is time well spent. Then we spend hundreds of
dollars on hair products to keep the hair soft and frizzy free.It would be so much cheaper and time
efficient to just let the hair do its natural thing and go back to the
beginning; the white purity of a new life. If only the skin would also go back
to the smoothness of a babies butt, I’d buy into the white hair. Oh how happy I
would be. White hair and baby smooth skin…ok if I can get that deal I’ll give up
the blond and go white. Now that’s real vanity!

Friday, January 8, 2016

One of the great secret to proactive anti-aging is to be so busy you don’t have the time to think
about your aches and pains or your wrinkles and sags. You often hear about people
retiring and being busier than when they worked full time. Of course there are
those who simply slip into old age way before their time. Those are usually the
complainers.

Keeping busy and continuing to be active is the greatest antidote
to aging. Of course there will be modifications and compromises, but that is
the nature of life. In yoga we call this the three A’s - awareness of the situation, adjustment to the situation and
then adaptation.

First you need to assess or become aware. I do get tired some days and when I do I know I need to pull
back and adjust my energy. I am adapting to a more moderate and slower
pace. When I was younger I never took the time to relax. Now I know I need
to pull back a bit and simply replenish my energy.

I’m better at setting
priorities and those priorities are the things I enjoy doing. I’ve earned
the right to choose not to push so hard to achieve and yet at the same time
stay so busy that life is full and rewarding.

I won’t tell you that there aren’t the days when the aches
and the pains of aging catch up to me. Like a little tap on the shoulder aging reminds me that my body has been
around for a while. So I pull back, put up my feet and thank aging for
reminding me that there are many things in my life I don’t need to do anymore.
Now I speed walk instead of run and somehow I am busier than I’ve ever been, I
get more accomplished and the aches and the pains subside not with a complaint,
but with awareness, adjustment and adaptation. After all survival of the fittest is not about the youngest and the strongest,
but the one who can adapt to the situation with ease.

Pro-Active Anti-Aging Tips

A river symbolizes the flow of time. Everything in nature has its own cycle of transitions, transformations and passageways. It is also symbolic of the many twist and turns we must encounter in life. Like the river we must take time to turn, to pause, alter our course and refresh ourselves. The river also reminds us that we can only go forward. As the saying goes, “You can never step into the same river twice.” Once the river has completed its journey it flows onto the delta which means change. Here the river loses its individuality and becomes part of one great sea. This is when we all re-become the great consciousness of the universe.
How we make the journey is more important than the journey
Improving and maintaining your health is Pro-Active Anti-Aging! It’s more than a good diet and exercise. Attitude, awareness and acceptance let us navigate the many twists and turns of life with strength, balance, flexibility and peace of mind.
Follow Doctor Lynn’s Pro-Active Anti-Aging Tips and make your life a river of flowing consciousness where each new change is met with the best of you!